You're probably lost, looking for Dan's photos, bicycling links, or trying to find Mickey Goese's growing art portfolio site. Mickey's site is at www.mickeygoese.com. Just click on his little office buddy here to take you there.The deadly Fiesta Island cat story can be found by clicking on the squished cat sign below. The bike sign takes you to my bicycling links page.

If
you're lost on the Internet, why not try these helpful exercises...

STEP
1:Begin by verifying that you have righteous chi and are one
with your computer. Click on the crystal ball to assure that the information
flow is truly bidirectional.

STEP
2:SMILE!!
The system is publishing pictures of you at your computer...Click here to see your picture.

STEP
4:If you're
not happy with the exercises so far, you can cause this web site to crash
by just clicking here. (OK,
so our juvenile senses of humor are greatly influenced by the things our
kids laugh at. There's nothing like the sound of children laughing!)

WHERE
DID "GOESE" COME FROM?
The Goese children have
been told that the Goese name is German. But in Germany, they'll tell
you it's a Dutch name and it doesn't mean anything in German. What's the
deal?? There are conflicting stories. Here's the disputed story as told
by John Goese:

Our
Great Grandpa William Gösser was from Deutschland (yes, that's Germany).
When he immigrated to the US in the early 1880's, he changed the name
to "Goese." This "shortened" version is more Dutch
than German, but apparently he thought he was making things easy for
the Americans. (Go figure.)

Anyway,
he wanted to live in Florida, but the immigration official, seeing "sheepherder"
on his immigration form, sent him to Wisconsin. Well, as things turned
out, the Gösser / Goese family found its way to Florida over a hundred
years later when Jim and Doris moved from the Chicago area to Sarasota
Florida. We may not be fast, but we're persistent.

Jim Goese (Sr.) says
this isn't quite accurate, but until he comes up with another story that
sounds as good (maybe one involving space aliens or something like that),
we'll stick with this one. Here are interpretations of the pronunciation
of Gösser
and the Americanized Goese.

And what happened to the rest of the Gösser clan that didn't cross
the pond in the 1800's? From the looks of the web site (click on the Gösser
logo), some of our distant cousins have also relocated but remained on
the continent, producing an outstanding Austrian energy drink in the city
of Leoben in central Austria. A favorite item on the site is the laid-back
1954
commercial (in Windows Media format). Cheers!!

When the power of love
overcomes the love of power,
the world will know peace.

Dan hits a new "PR" (personal record)
in a 20km time trial in 2007.
Apparently the goofy space helmet
helped him go faster. Click on photo for full image.

Dan pulls the pack for
a few laps
in the 2006 El Cajon Grand Prix criterium "crit"
race before he learns about conserving energy
for the final sprint.
(photo by Mitch Clinton)
Click on photo for full image.

The old fart is still racing in 2008, shown
here preparing to sprint to 5th place in
the San Diego Cyclovets Omnium criterium.
(photo by Donna Duarte)
Click on photo for full image.

133 mph (max) on two slightly
fatter wheels...
... fast enough "for a nut case" A brief pause on the bike that doesn't like standing
still.